If this isn’t enough to make you go home and practice, I don’t know what is. Great to see Carole King (an Ode/A&M artist) honored. Her Tapestry album was produced by Lou Adler (an insurance salesman who wanted to write songs).
Despite the singular lack of successful legislation in the U.S. Congress (or much of anywhere else for that matter), the news was not all bad this year. Not by a long shot. The good news has a common theme for the most part: Artists, a taste making radio programmer and in one case a publisher […]
[Editor Charlie says: As of Christmas Day (7 days in release) “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has grossed $890 million in worldwide box office. “How better to revive a 30-year-old series than by enlisting armies of kids to make the content interesting again?” Well, that’s one better way.] This is a repost from July 15, 2007 In his […]
If you’re one of the people left with a job in the music business where your employer pays for some of your health insurance costs under a private health insurance plan, the federal government is coming after you–but not for now. The so-called “cadillac tax” plan to tax those health care payments as income has been […]
More on this to come, but now Spotify has been called out as a potential infringer by artists and songwriters, now–now–suddenly it’s Spotify making this announcement: Today we are excited to announce that Spotify will invest in the resources and technical expertise to build a comprehensive publishing administration system to solve this problem. Right…that’s called […]
According to StreetInsider, MIC Coalition member Pandora has returned to Planet Earth and closed licenses with ASCAP and BMI, ending years of rate court litigation by the highly litigious Pandora under the controversial Department of Justice consent decrees. Pandora (NYSE: P) and ASCAP and BMI, the world’s leading Performance Rights Organizations (PROs), today announced the signing […]
This post is the second of a two part interview with Blake Morgan and David Lowery about the newly announced webcasting rates as determined by the Copyright Royalty Board. MTP: How do you feel about the CRB decision in general as far as rates go? Well it’s a mixed bag. Leans bad. The rates went […]
It’s no secret that Google is conducting “agency capture” at scale in the United States. Reporting by The Guardian reveals that Google is using its influence to try to dominate the House Judiciary Committee, including its Chairman Bob Goodlatte who wrote letters trying to help Google get out of a corner in the European Commission’s […]
A Virginia jury today handed down a $25 million judgement in favor of BMG for willful contributory copyright infringement by Cox Communications following what was apparently a very brief deliberation. There will be much written about the case, but let’s think for a moment about what it means for the Copyright Alert System. The judge […]
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